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Description About the Editors Today, we know that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound w...

Description About the Author The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image from begging bowl to breadbasket. This ...

Description About the Editor In his groundbreaking paper “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices (1958)”, Philip W Anderson originated...

Description About the Author The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and many evolutionary ones, now y...

Description Online applications have been gaining wide acceptance among the general public. Companies like Amazon, Google, Yahoo! and NetFlicks...

Description About the Author Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue a scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualisatio...

This is the 1st China's Science Yearbook published since 1949. It covers events, activities and progresses in various fields of science and technol...

Description On the 40th anniversary of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) Theory, this informative volume looks back at some of the deve...

Description Two-dimensional materials have had widespread applications in nanoelectronics, catalysis, gas capture, water purification, energy s...

Description Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with s...

Description About the Author This is a collection of Prof L D Faddeev's important lectures, papers and talks. Some of these have not been publi...

Description About the Editors In this volume, major events and personalities of 20th-century physics are portrayed through recollections and hi...

Description The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics was created in 1965 by a group of LD Landau's pupils. Very soon, it was widely recogni...

Description Since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which in turn, ...

Description This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar s...

Description Two theories revolutionised the 20th-century view of space and time: Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics....

Description This volume offers a comprehensive overview of our understanding of gravity at both the experimental and the theoretical level. Cri...

Description New and renewable energy systems will play an important role in the sustainable development of a future energy strategy. The recent...

Description This book is based on research on the rigorous proof of chaos and bifurcations in 2-D quadratic maps, especially the invertible cas...

Description About the Editor By 1911, we'd known about radioactivity for over a decade, but its origin remained a mystery. Ernest Rutherford's ...

Description In July 2000, a conference was held to honour the 65th birthdays of four of the leading international figures in the field of quant...

Description This invaluable book goes from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of non...

Description Thanks to Einstein’s theories on relativity, our notions of space and time have undergone profound revisions. Since then, the resul...

Description This collection of papers presents ideas and problems that have arisen over the past 100 years regarding classical and quantum grav...

Description 100 Diagnostic Challenges in Clinical Medicine comprises one hundred well-illustrated clinical scenarios and their appropriate inv...

Description 100 Challenges in Cardiology comprises one hundred well-illustrated clinical scenarios covering a wide spectrum of cardiology cases...

Description Chiral materials have been studied in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia for applications in areas like asym...

Description Lee Hsien Loong, Professor Wang Gungwu and Professor Leonard Andaya Presents three public lectures given to commemorate the 50th an...